[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 141 (Monday, October 31, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
UN OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded hearings to examine corruption 
in the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, focusing on recent reports 
relative to illegal payments to individuals, investigations of the 
United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services and the United 
Nations Procurement System, Bayoil oil diversions, and progress toward 
implementing United Nations management reforms, including the oversight 
by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control to stop misconduct by U.S. 
persons doing business under the Oil-for-Food program, after receiving 
testimony from former Representative Newt Gingrich; Thomas Melito, 
Director, International Affairs and Trade, Government Accountability 
Office; Robert W. Werner, Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 
Department of the Treasury; and Paul A. Volcker, Independent Inquiry 
Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, New York, New 
York.